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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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Stock-market fraud, steganography and cyberattacks…in 1834! The fascinating tale of Blanc brothers
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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
At last, the Gloucester caught up to the Pearl, and its officers revealed why they’d been so wary. Several days earlier, while they had been looking for the squadron, they had detected five men-of-war, one of which had hoisted a broad red pendant, signifying that it was Anson’s flagship. In excitement, the Pearl had raced toward the fleet, but whil
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We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
T.S. Eliot • The Essential T.S. Eliot
George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an enormou
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